The Swiss-born sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) is best known for his bronzes depicting ghostly and attenuated figures, which made him a key figure of twentieth-century sculpture.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most important artists of the late nineteenth century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the twentieth century. He began as an Impressionist ––he contributed with major works to five of the eight Impressionist exhibitions between 1879 and 1886––, but went on to develop a most richly-coloured style in his constant search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature.

A charismatic figure of the international art scene,Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949) is revered today as one of the most influential artists of the early twentieth century to have emerged from Latin America.Though Torres-García was born in Montevideo,Uruguay,the artist spent most of his life in Spain,Italy, France,and the U.S.A.(New York) before returning to his native Uruguay in 1934 and settling in Montevideo.There he founded the “Taller Torres-García,” the most significant art educational community of its time (1944-1962),in the tradition of the Bauhaus and De Stijl,th

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is without doubt, the most important twentieth-century French artist, and one of the main ones in the history working with color. Matisse's work utterly refutes the notion that the great discoveries of modernism were made by violently rejecting the past. His work was grounded in tradition and in a much less restless and ironic approach to it than Picasso's. 

Considered one of the great artist 20th century, Joan Miró has bequeathed us a definitive body of work whose influence has continued to grow over the years.
Miró did not paint dreams but instead, through his works, provided the spectator with certain elements so that so that he would be the one that dreamed. He never worked under the influence of hypnosis, drugs or alcohol. Nevertheless, his artistic personality and the way he represented on canvas what inspiration dictated to him led André Breton to exclaim: Miró is the most surrealist of us all.

As a painter, as well as a teacher, the Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky (1869-1944) has paid a major role in the development of modern art.
In depth influenced by music Kandinsky paints his first abstract compositions during his Bavarian period (1906-1914), and his intensely use of color and form has influenced succesive abstract artists from his own time to the present day.
Max Bill, who introduce this monograph, was a student at the Bauhaus in the twenties , and editor of the first edition of the collected writings by Kandinsky.

Francis Bacon s work has a strength and vitality that has led to his position as one of the greatest twentieth century artists. The violent intensity with which his paintings give expression to the existential angst of his fellow human beings is virtually without parallel in the history of the art. Bacon s work (1909 -1992) undoubtedly includes some of the most extraordinary and powerful paintings in modern art, reflecting the isolation and terror of the human condition, conveyed by the distortion of features and the nude body.